Example sentences of "was [adj] as a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | let me just get back that was abhorrent as a word w has already been used and er should be used again by what you said , you saw s somebody being raped by two soldiers . |
| 2 | To Trent the splash was loud as a bomb . |
| 3 | She was pissed as a fart . |
| 4 | Borg was outstanding as a competitor , too . |
| 5 | He was helpless as a lamb |
| 6 | Well , she used to sort of keep shop for him , she was deaf as a post ! |
| 7 | The Committee considered that such a criterion was unsuitable as a basis for criminal liability . |
| 8 | That guy was sore as a cowboy 's … ’ |
| 9 | This is so even though the exact economic effect might be carried out through a transaction which , in form , was registrable as a security interest in the goods . |
| 10 | The position was that as a sub-librarian in Plymouth . |
| 11 | Employers , therefore , had less reason to associate for defensive purposes since although trade unionism did represent a challenge to employers ' power to manage ‘ it was manifest as a threat to specific employers in specific industries at specific times and places rather than as a general threat to employers as a class ’ ( Adams , 1981 , p. 286 ) . |
| 12 | He was popular as a man of the people who toured Mexico with his wife and 10 children in a mobile home during the presidential campaign , a very different strategy from the typically aloof approach of the PAN 's other wealthy and middle-class leaders . |
| 13 | Aqib Javed , a vastly improved bowler in the last year , was perfect as a back-up to the two great bowlers . |
| 14 | The government service organisation considered that a shortage of legal and estates professionals may have been influenced by the Big Bang , but nothing was visible as a result of the Crash , and they had not been particularly affected themselves either way . |
| 15 | Leon was clever as a boy ; he was a dull-looking child , hampered by short sight . |
| 16 | And he did his own gardening , right up , when he was a hundred , he was fit as a fiddle when he was a hundred , doing his own gardening . |
| 17 | He immediately booked a flight to Toulouse , saw a house 35 miles north-west of Toulouse in a small hamlet and realised it was ideal as a home as well as an auberge . |
| 18 | ‘ He was hard as a baby , ’ said Rose , confirming this thought . |
| 19 | At that stage , Duxford was undeveloped as a warbird centre and having the Corsair based there was an additional attraction for the Imperial War Museum . |
| 20 | The court will apply a test of whether the plaintiff 's rescue attempt was likely as a result of the breach of duty and whether the plaintiff acted reasonably . |
| 21 | To a certain extent that was inevitable as a result of the changes that have occurred over the past three or four Governments and I am certain that it will continue to improve . |
| 22 | The river was smooth as a pond . |
| 23 | This was the subject of long and enthusiastic review essays by Macaulay and Sir Walter Scott , who noted that Pilgrim 's Progress was unique as a book whose popularity had spread upwards from the lower to the upper classes instead of in the other direction . |
| 24 | His voice was hoarse as a raven 's croak . |
| 25 | I believe that the Scriptures speak of God as Father , that Christ was incarnate as a male , that he chose men to be his apostles … not because of social conditioning , but because in the order of creation headship and authority is symbolically and fundamentally associated with maleness . |
| 26 | The Privy Council reversed the decision , stating that provided fire damage was foreseeable as a kind of damage , the degree of likelihood was irrelevant to the question of kind of damage suffered . |
| 27 | In Polemis some damage was foreseeable as a result of the plank being dropped . |
| 28 | They asked what kind of damage was foreseeable as a result of the breach of duty . |
| 29 | During the 1660s and 1670s his nursery was the largest in London , and he was famous as a supplier of fruit trees in particular , though he sold ornamental trees and shrubs and seeds as well . |
| 30 | Peter of Corbeil was a theologian who lectured on scripture and was famous as a preacher . |